General Knowledge Quiz - 6

1. Quiz: In which field of knowledge do
people speak of the "butterfly effect"?

Chaos theory

2. Quiz: Who is the founder of the
Samkhya school of Vedic philosophy?

Kapila

3. Quiz: What is the name of the snake
charmer's flute?

Magudi in South India and Punji
in the North

4. Quiz: Who is believed to have
invented the sitar and the dholak?

Amir Khusro (1253-1325)

5. Quiz: What was called" Jesuit
ware"?

Porcelain exported from China in
the 18th century. They were decorated with subject matter suggested
by Jesuit missionaries.

6. Quiz: What was the US government's
Strategic Defence Initiative better known as?

Star Wars

7. Quiz: The drug called Prozac has
revolutionised treatment of a disease. State the name of disease?

Depression

8. Quiz: Of what did Gandhi say,
"One of the few useful things ever invented"?

The sewing machine

9. Quiz: Which city, founded by Mohammed
Quli Qutub Shah was originally called Bhagnagar?

Hyderabad

10. Quiz: Why was Freetown, capital of
Sierra Leone, called as Freetown?

It is a town founded by and for
slaves freed from America after the American War of Independence.

11. Quiz: Why is 28th day of February celebrated
as National Science Day?

It was on February 28th, 1928
that C V Raman announced his discovery of new radiation - subsequently named
the Raman Effect - that won him the Noble Prize.

12. Quiz: Which seminal work on
economics has the subtitle A Critique of Political Economy as part of its English
translation when first published in 1886?

Das Kapital

13. Quiz: From which city did Kublai
Khan move his capital to Peking or Khanbaliq as it was called then?

Karakorum

14. Quiz: Name the ancient fortress city
on the Incas in the Andes Mountains of Peru, unknown to the Spanish, and rediscovered
in the early 20th century.

Machu Picchu

15. Quiz: What, in maritime law, is the
meaning of the term 'high seas'?

All parts of the mass of
saltwater surrounding the globe that are not part of the territorial sea or
internal waters of a country.

16. Quiz: Who was the first head of the
UN's Food and Agriculture Organisation?

B R Sen

17. Quiz: What do we know 'The War Song
of the Rhine Army' sung by 500 volunteers marching to Paris in 1792 as?

'La Marseillaise' or the French
national anthem.

18. Quiz: What is recorded using
Labanotaion?Dance movement or human movement.19. Quiz: Who would you find on either
side of a Green Line in Cyprus?

Greek Cypriots and Turkish
Cypriots

20. Quiz: Name the largest islands in Europe,
Asia and Africa.

Great Britain, Borneo and Madagaskar

21. Quiz: In the USA what does the
First Amendment guarantee?

Free speech

22. Quiz: What does the second Amendment
guarantee for USA citizens?

The Right to bear arms.

23. Quiz: Of which Nobel prize winner
did Francis Crick say that he was a genius who had a "boldness in theory
making - boldness as an aspect of rigour"?

Linus Pauling

24. Quiz: What did Alfred Binet create? The IQ test.25. Quiz: What is the four-colour
conjecture?If a plane is divided into
regions (countires) then it is possible to colour them with at most four
colours so that no two countries with a common frontier have the same colours.26. Quiz: What did Guido of Arozzo
invent?The staff or stave used in the
notation of Western music27. Quiz: Who founded the Indian
Institute of Science at Bengaluru?The Tatas28. Quiz: Leonardo Fibonacci is regarded
as the most distinguished mathematician of the Middle Ages. What is regarded as
his most important contribution to European mathematics?The intro of the Hindu-Arabic
numerals into mathematics29. Quiz: Who designates a world
heritage site?The World Heritage Convention
founded by the General Conference of UNESCO in 1972.30. Quiz: After whom is Friday named?Frigg, Norse goddess of married
love